Compound for disinfecting purposes.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I/VILLIAM MARTIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMPOUND FOR DISINFECTING PURPOSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 690,867, dated January '7, 1902.

Application filed March 25, 1901. Serial No. 52,762. [No specimens.)

To a whom, it may concern-.-

Be it known that I,WILLIAM MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Compounds for Disinfecting Purposes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, economical, and effioient compound to be used for the purpose of disinfecting and destroying the germ life existing especially in noxious gases arising from sewer-vaults, &c.; and my invention consists in the combination hereinafter described and claimed.

In making my compound I take two-thirds of sulfur and one-third of black oxid of manganese and thoroughly Inix the same. The

compound may then be put up in packages for shipment or storage, as desired.

In using my compound I take a small quantity, place it in a shallow vessel, and heat it to a heat of almost 300 Fahrenheit, when it will evolve a disinfecting-gas particularly destructive to germ life. If it be desired to disinfect a sewer-vault, the vessel containing the heated compound should be lowered a short distance into the vault, when the disinfecting-gases will mingle with the sewer-gases as they arise, efiectually killing all germ life therein contained. Some of the disinfectinggas will fall and penetrate the sewage a short distance, killing any germ life it comes in contact with.

The herein-described compound for disinfecting, composed of a mixture of sulfur and black oxid of manganese, substantially as described.

WILLIAM MARTIN. Witnesses:

THOMAS F. SHERIDAN, HARRY IRWIN CROMEE. 

